Smitty's burned and it looks like another continuos block of historic buildings is gone to be replaced by a parking lot, how many years will we be stuck with that? If the streetcar isn't build, probably decades. I never got around to setting foot in Smitty's but it breathed life into that section of Vine, lighting it up like mid day for most of the night. You can't underestimate what a presence like that does for a neighborhood and now its gone. There's plans underway to somehow save the buildings or even the facades, but from what I can see from the street it doesn't look good.

Cincinnati, a living breathing city, there is going to be non stop change, good and bad, we can only hope to keep tipping the balance towards good. On the opposite side of downtown, the riverfront work on the Banks and Queen City SquareII continues providing hope and enthusiasm for new life and vibrancy downtown.

and so the sun sets on another chapter of Cincinnati history. but it will rise again. life goes on.

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Your standard fair, its a party, its in a park on the river. Theres bands, music and some beer. But everyWednesday you're also almost guaranteed to see something unusual, spectacular or sublime. The hula hoop guy was missing last night, but we stumbled upon a couple local bartenders practicing for a competition. One from Argosy and one from Mynt. Then I instantly forgot their names, sorry guys.

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Something about those clear crisp winter evenings, the bite in the air makes the beer taste just that much better doesn't it?But this is the end of April for cryin out loud!Didn't stop us from hangin out at the Beer Sellar for The Party Source cigar tasting. The featured Cigars were some big boys thats for sure, 52 - 60 ring gauge, for you neophytes out there, thats about the size of a lead pipe in your house.Do they still have lead pipes? I may be dating myself here.

The latest installment of Watch This is down to #70 The French Connection filmed in 1971. The film editing was crude by today's standards, the plot was rough and tended to jump around and the whole thing ended abruptly. By today's standards, high school kids with a cell phone could produce a better movie, and most of the people reviewing the movie seemed to dislike it.

BUT, taken in the context of 1971, The French Connection set the standard for cop movies and almost every cop film since follows the same formula. The rogue cop who got a fellow officer killed whom no one wants to work with. They stumble upon a case. It gets endorsed by the top brass, there's a car chase, a shoot out, it all ends badly and the criminals make out better than the cops did.I liked it, and I want Popeye Doyle's hat.

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Spontaneity has a way of making good things great.Like that time you went out for a quick drink at Party in the Park and woke up three days later in Rabbit Hash missing a sock and shoe.We where just there for a quick drink which by the end of the evening morphed into a 4 hour dinner. I'm not complaining, un contraire, I had to pinch myself a few times that I was actually eating dinner with two fascinating food bloggers, the CincinnatiNomerati and Epi-Ventures.

We snagged that table in back, oh yeah, nobody ramming into us all night now.

A whole discussion around the best burger in Cincinnati. I still have to go with Terry's at #1 and a Big N' Tasty slots in down around 6 or 7 probably.But kinda like Vincent said "That's a pretty f#@king good burger" except he didn't say burger, but you get the point.

I know that and a buck ninty five will get us a coffee at Tazza but we were the first customers to use the outdoor furniture.

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